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Sucre  n.  A silver coin of Ecuador, worth 68 cents (ca. 1900).






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"Sucre" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Bolivia Type: republic Capital: La Paz (seat of government); Sucre (legal capital and seat of judiciary) Administrative divisions: 9 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento); Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, Beni, La Paz, Oruro, Pando, Potosi, Santa Cruz, Tarija Independence: ...
— The 1992 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... Choco, Cordoba, Cundinamarca, Guainia, Guaviare, Huila, La Guajira, Magdalena, Meta, Narino, Norte de Santander, Putumayo, Quindio, Risaralda, San Andres y Providencia, Distrito Capital de Santa fe de Bogota*, Santander, Sucre, Tolima, Valle del Cauca, ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... on Melisande's lips. Suddenly she had ceased to see the pearls as trinkets finite and inapposite—saw them as things presently transmutable into little marble tables, bocks, dominos, absinthes au sucre, shiny black portfolios with weekly journals in them, yellow staves with daily journals flapping from them, vermouths secs, ...
— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm

... and in a day or two there is a fresh pronunciamiento. We thought that when the Spaniards had been driven out we should have had peace, but it is not so; we have had San Martin, and Bolivar, and Aguero, and Santa Cruz, and Sucre. Bolivar again finally defeated the Spaniards at Ayacucho. Rodil held possession of Callao castle, and defended it until January of this year. We in the villages have not suffered—those who liked fighting went out with one or other of the generals; some have returned, others ...
— The Treasure of the Incas • G. A. Henty

... as she laughs, and almost as readily; owes not a sou, saves not a centime; sews on Adolphe's buttons, like a good neighbor; is never so happy as when Adolphe in return takes her to Tivoli or the Jardin Turc; adores galette, sucre d'orge, and Frederick Lemaitre; and looks upon a masked ball and a debardeur dress as the summit of ...
— In the Days of My Youth • Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards



Words linked to "Sucre" :   bolivia, Republic of Bolivia, Ecuadoran monetary unit, city, metropolis



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